Holocaust and Genocide Studies provides undergraduate and postgraduate sequences focussed on knowledge about the Holocaust, and many other cases of genocide across the world. It explores the Holocaust as a turning point in human history, the causes…

The ACJC offers an exciting range of scholarships for internships, language study, overseas intensive units, honours and postgraduate research. Applications should be submitted to the Monash Scholarships Office before March 21st. For study tour scho…

Jewish Studies equips students with an understanding of Jewish civilisation in its many aspects – language and literature, history, theology, philosophy, rabbinics, law, politics and sociology. The first-year gateway units provide students with an un…

The course focuses on the Arab-Israel conflict and investigates current attempts to mediate peace between Jews and Palestinians, the impact of the conflict on the lives of people, poverty, settlements and security issues, terrorism and counter-terror…

Peddlers, ordinary, unsung, and usually anonymous, Jewish men made up the foot soldiers of the great Jewish migration, spanning the long era from the end of the eighteenth century into the early twentieth. Jews from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Islamic lands left their homes for a series of new world –the British Isles, Scandinavia, North, South, and Central America, the Antipodes, and southern Africa and used peddling as the strategy which got them started in these places. What were the implications of this particular occupation, one which forced them to knock on their customers’ doors and to speak to the customers in their own languages, for Jewish integration and transformation in these new places?

Hasia Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, with joint appointment in the department of history and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She is also director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. She has built her scholarly career around the study of American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and the history of American women. She has written about the ways in which American Jews in the early twentieth century reacted to the issue of race and the suffering of African Americans, and the process by which American Jews came to invest deep meaning in New York’s Lower East Side. Her most recent book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust (2009) won the National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies. She has also written about other immigrant groups and the contours of their migration and settlement, including a study of Irish immigrant women and of Irish, Italian, and east European Jewish foodways.

About Our Centre

The ACJC is an interdisciplinary centre that sits within the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies (SOPHIS) in the Faculty of Arts. Our researchers are immersed in the academic study of the cultures, literatures, politics and histories of Jewish civilisation. Each year, over a thousand students study with us on issues that impact on world history. We are known for our global internships and overseas study trips to Israel, Europe and Rwanda. Our subjects are accredited across disciplines such as History, Religion, International Studies and Film, or as a Minor sequence in Jewish Studies and Holocaust & Genocide Studies.